Yesterday in an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN, Donald Trump slapped the host with an accusation of media bias. He accused Cooper of talking about polls that show Trump in a negative light.
"I am leading across the board," Trump said in the interview. "And then you hit me with this poll that I didn't see before, where oh, gee, it's not even that kind of a poll. All i know is I have a very big group of support. And I think one of the reasons."
"Let me tell you. The people don't trust you and the people don't trust the media. And I understand why," Trump lectured Cooper.
Here's part of the transcript:
TRUMP: It's not even a poll. It's in three different states and you are hitting me with this. Frankly, I think it is a very unfair question. I think it is an extremely -- you start off the interview with that. You don't say, I led in the FOX poll. I'm leading in the ABC/Washington Post poll.
COOPER: You're leading across the board.
TRUMP: I am leading across the board. And then you hit me with this poll that I didn't see before, where oh, gee, it's not even that kind of a poll. All i know is I have a very big group of support. And I think one of the reasons.
COOPER: Among Republicans you are way out in the front.
TRUMP: Let me tell you. The people don't trust you and the people don't trust the media. And I understand why.
COOPER: Right. And politicians.
TRUMP: You know, I have always been covered, fairly, accurately because it was usually a financial press. And you know numbers are numbers and my numbers happen to be great. So, I was always sort of treated fair.
With the media it's, not all cases, some, some of the political media is great. And really honest. Even if they've don't want to want to be, they're really honest. But I find that 60%, 70% of the political media is really, really dishonest.
You know I tell the story, the American dream -- I talk about the American dream in speeches. The American dream is dead but I'm going to make it bigger, better and stronger than ever before. The American dream is dead. But i'm going to make it bigger, stronger. Right. And I go 'boom!' and I do it with great bravado and the audience goes crazy.
